Safety Evaluation of Traffic Merging Control Methods for Freeway ...

Therefore, traffic merging control is an effective countermeasure for enhancing work zone safety. This study proposed an integrated framework based on driving ...

The Joint Merge: Improving Work Zone Traffic Flows

Prior research has shown that the commonly used "conventional" lane merge design (CLM), specified in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), can ...

Safety evaluation of freeway interchange merging areas based on ...

In view of the special traits of traffic flows in merging areas, the study attempts to discover the rules pertaining to driver behavior and workload when ...

Safety evaluation of freeway interchange merging areas based on ...

Merging into the mainline traffic flow increases the through-driver workload to a higher level or even exceeds the safety threshold, despite ...

Safety performance evaluation of freeway merging areas ... - SafetyLit

By taking a real freeway merging scenario as an example, comprehensive experiments were conducted by introducing a single AV and multiple AVs on the mainline of ...

Zipper Merging: Optimizing Traffic Flow and Safety at Lane Closures

It also shows reduced queue length by 22% for low-speed urban roads, 100% for a high-speed urban arterial, and 87% for a freeway merge segment, compared to the ...

Safety evaluation of freeway interchange merging areas based on ...

Insight is offered for more effective segment division of operating speed prediction, and dynamic risk management with regard to interchange safety, ...

Safety assessment of freeway merging and diverging influence ...

The results of the validation effort of safety assessment based on conflict analysis of simulated traffic suggested that this technique is recommended for ...

Evaluation of Freeway-Merging Safety as Influenced by Ramp ...

The traffic-i:onflict technique was modified to evaluate the relative safety of freeway merging with and without the use of entrance ramp-metering control.

Safety evaluation of freeway interchange merging areas based on ...

Prior safety evaluations of interchange merging areas have mostly focused on traffic conflicts and operating speeds, without considering how these factors ...

A multinomial logit model: Safety risk analysis of interchange area ...

Among the safety evaluation studies of interchange areas, the affecting factors involved left-side off-ramps, expressway ramps, geometry configuration, road ...

Safety Evaluation of Access Management Policies and Techniques

Properly spaced traffic signals allow for the efficient progression of motor vehicle and pedestrian traffic as well as provide an agency with greater ...

Expected Safety Performance of Different Freeway Merging ...

Furthermore, most strategies in all traffic conditions showed better traffic operation results than S0, confirming the advantages of managing freeway merging in ...

Enhancing Work Zone Safety: Evaluating Static Merge Strategies ...

This control factor facilitates determining the desirable safety distance between two moving vehicles. The motorist is required to maintain a ...

Expressway Merge Assistance Method and Evaluation Based on ...

First, the safety hazard of the merge area is analyzed. Second, the time range of the ramp truck to reach the merge area is calculated according to the ...

Safety evaluation of freeway acceleration lanes based on crashes ...

When evaluating the safety performance for merge areas, the influence areas can be determined in several ways. Most studies collected crashes ...

FINAL REPORT EVALUATION OF THE LATE MERGE WORK ZONE ...

Additional static methods of promoting earlier merging include ... Evaluation of Supplementary Traffic. Control Measures for Freeway Work-zone Approaches.

A Cooperative Merging Control Method for Freeway Ramps in ...

The highway on-ramp merging area is one of the major sections that form traffic bottlenecks. In a connected vehicle environment, V2V and V2I technologies ...

development and evaluation of an advanced dynamic lane merge ...

zone traffic control during the past several years to improve traffic flow and to improve safety by minimizing aggressive driving behavior, typically ...

Expected Safety Performance of Different Freeway Merging ...

A MATLAB program is developed to simulate various traffic conditions at a merging area and to calculate the PNC merging for the different merging strategies.